People don't know that until the 19th century malaria was the ultimate whitey keep out solution. This is why the Sub-Saharan Africa was the "Dark Continent", it's because it was mostly not even roughly mapped.
Indeed, part of the problem may be that even the Europeans (ya know, the ones who did the writing) didn't know where exactly the slaves were coming from. They knew they were buying them from coastal Africans, but they weren't witnessing the slaves' capture.
And that narrative breaks down when you think about it but too many people don’t
People don't know that until the 19th century malaria was the ultimate whitey keep out solution. This is why the Sub-Saharan Africa was the "Dark Continent", it's because it was mostly not even roughly mapped.
Indeed, part of the problem may be that even the Europeans (ya know, the ones who did the writing) didn't know where exactly the slaves were coming from. They knew they were buying them from coastal Africans, but they weren't witnessing the slaves' capture.